Hi everyone,
Not going to refer to the recent unpleasantness, other than to say that I've had messages on other social media telling me of many supportive responses, and I just want to say a massive 'Thank you' to all xxxxx
Laughing at the wonky organ, Amethyst - I, of course knew exactly what you meant and absolutely did not take it the wrong way
Amy - hope the neurologist can help your Mum - it's so hard to know what is caused by the dementia and so easy not to consider other possible reasons, I often found that when dealing with psychologists and Mil, that they just concentrated on the dementia and never considered that other medical issues could be making the problems worse, or even causing them in the first place. I'm glad this guy is so helpful and approachable xxx
Hope everyone is enjoying their choirs and concerts, and that no one else is suffering from dealing with a wonky organ
It's mad that JM lives only 11 or so miles away, and didn't get as hammered by the snow. Collages and most schools didn't open again round here until yesterday (or in some cases, today, though that has been mainly due to damage to pipes and buildings, caused by the snow and low temps) and it wasn't until Tuesday night that I managed to get my car off my drive! It snowed pretty heavily from the early hours of Sunday morning, until very late Sunday night, with another not so heavy dusting early on Monday morning. That was followed by overnight temperatures of minus 6 degrees! No public transport to or from our village from Friday night until Tuesday afternoon, and I saw several near misses as car drivers tried to negociate the steep corner at the end of my road, and ended up sliding backwards down the slope!
Being housebound, I tried to catch up with admin - foiled again by IT issues and a replacement laptop that didn't allow me to actually access my work data base! Yesterday, I was able to get out, spent the morning at a project and the afternoon travelling to our nearest wros service, to connect manually to our intranet and persuade the replacement laptop to accept me as an 'authorised person' - I'm told that having done that, I should now be able to connect at home - we'll see
Haven't been near Mil - though will hopefully be going today. Had a letter through telling me that there will be a 'review' of her CHC funding in January (to be honest, I hadn't actually ever been told that she was getting CHC !) . Not that it matters (because of the 117 funding) but will be interesting to see how if those who want to save money by withdrawing CHC will react to the statement from staff that I was given, saying that Mil really needs long periods of one to one care now?
I'll finish with a few photographs - my bird table has been incredibly busy - robins, chaffinches, blue tits, great tits, starlings, blackbirds, coal tits, gold finch, sparrows and jack daws - so a few shots of them, a shot from my bedroom window from very early Sunday morning - and just for fun, being housebound, dau and I put up the tree and decorated the house on Sunday. To try and persuade OH into the Christmas spirit (he can be just a bit of a grinch) we even decorated the downstairs loo - just for him
I won't repeat exactly what he saiud when he walked in there and saw it, sufficve to say that dau and I were amazed when he labelled us mad and laughed like a maniac. I am sure all of you will agree that it is very tasteful, and as they say in South Wales, just plain lush